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PHILADELPHIA — Duong Nghe Ly can’t wait to begin his senior year at South Philadelphia High School. A day of violence there last year changed his life, and he wants to learn if his school has been transformed as well.
A school district in South Hadley, Massachusetts, is hoping a specialized software application will help stop tragedies like the one that befell Phoebe Prince, an Irish-born teen who committed suicide in January after an alleged bullying campaign by fellow students . In the wake of her death, the Massachusetts state legislature passed a law mandating that schools create formal anti-bullying plans, as well as provide an anonymous way of reporting bullying incidents .
SAN JUAN, Texas – When Ruth Garcia’s twins are born in two months, they’ll have all the rights of U.S.
With another summer ending, the time has come to ask the perennial question: Could this be the year higher education finally embraces the e-book? Some think that developments since the last buying cycle, particularly the arrival of Apple ‘s iPad computing tablet, might foreshadow an especially good year for electronic texts. CourseSmart, an e-textbook consortium comprising five major publishers, says it has sold four times more e-textbooks in 2009-10 than it did the previous year (although it would not provide the number of copies)
Harvard authorities have made available information suggesting that Marc Hauser, a star researcher who was put on leave this month, may have fabricated data in a 2002 paper. RSS Feed Get Science News From The New York Times ? “Given the published design of the experiment, my conclusion is that the control condition was fabricated,” said Gerry Altmann, the editor of the journal Cognition, in which the experiment was published. Dr
The trustees of the New School , an eclectic university in downtown Manhattan, selected David E. Van Zandt , dean of the Northwestern Law School, on Thursday to be its eighth president.
IN shaky economic times, going back to school needs to be treated like any other investment: you need to weigh the potential returns while closely managing the costs. Enlarge This Image Darren Hauck for The New York Times Paula Hogan, left, a financial planner, and Jane Schroeder, a career counselor, in Ms
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MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin student Leo Burt approached his former journalism instructor at the student union one day in August 1970. The intense 22-year-old thanked the man for encouraging him to write for a left-wing student newspaper, where he covered the Vietnam War protests raging on campus and where his politics had become radicalized.
GRINNELL, Iowa — In order to separate doting parents from their freshman sons, Morehouse College in Atlanta has instituted a formal “Parting Ceremony.” Enlarge This Image Brian C. Frank for The New York Times Boyd Monson, 19, and his father, Ronald Monson, at Grinnell College in Iowa, which holds a ceremony to formalize separation